BRAKE - GENTLY - SLOW DOWN –
- Give yourself time to take in the scenery…
Sometimes I just can’t grasp the speed of events here in Poland. Certain aspects, like a simple excursion around town are wrought with frustrating hours of inertia at pelican crossings (it’s illegal to cross until the green ‘fella’ gets you going), in queues (for everything ranging from buying a loaf of bread to posting a letter), and if you’re unlucky enough to choose one of the many bars here with waiter service, sitting with an empty glass until the cows come home… When it comes to the loftier things in life however, you can guarantee, proceedings happen within the blink of an eye!
The exhibition at Filharmonia was touted only around two weeks ago, but after a meeting proposed for some time next week, if the thing comes off, the work will be nailed to the walls within two weeks more – Hardly enough time to breathe let alone assess what I’ve done or enjoy the experience before the public gets their chance to criticise, and the work is either packed away or gone forever in exchange for hard cash (fingers crossed)!
And the work itself? Well, if not exactly going slowly, still continues to feel like it! This’s more down to my own mental capacity to take it in right now however, rather than the amount of work I’ve done since moving from Warsaw only six weeks ago! All be it smallish work, nine canvases completed with just three on the go to finish for the show isn’t a bad return by anyone’s standards, and it has to be said, the experience in such a sustained period of production really has got me back into the way of painting again – Simply to have been able to stand back briefly and view a body of work, which in whatever way for the first time in absolutely ages is beginning to show signs of consistency and purpose again, had me embarrassingly punching the air for a change instead of brooding over what the hell I was doing with my life! A small victory perhaps, but a huge step in grasping the purpose of it all again!
Sometimes I just can’t grasp the speed of events here in Poland. Certain aspects, like a simple excursion around town are wrought with frustrating hours of inertia at pelican crossings (it’s illegal to cross until the green ‘fella’ gets you going), in queues (for everything ranging from buying a loaf of bread to posting a letter), and if you’re unlucky enough to choose one of the many bars here with waiter service, sitting with an empty glass until the cows come home… When it comes to the loftier things in life however, you can guarantee, proceedings happen within the blink of an eye!
The exhibition at Filharmonia was touted only around two weeks ago, but after a meeting proposed for some time next week, if the thing comes off, the work will be nailed to the walls within two weeks more – Hardly enough time to breathe let alone assess what I’ve done or enjoy the experience before the public gets their chance to criticise, and the work is either packed away or gone forever in exchange for hard cash (fingers crossed)!
And the work itself? Well, if not exactly going slowly, still continues to feel like it! This’s more down to my own mental capacity to take it in right now however, rather than the amount of work I’ve done since moving from Warsaw only six weeks ago! All be it smallish work, nine canvases completed with just three on the go to finish for the show isn’t a bad return by anyone’s standards, and it has to be said, the experience in such a sustained period of production really has got me back into the way of painting again – Simply to have been able to stand back briefly and view a body of work, which in whatever way for the first time in absolutely ages is beginning to show signs of consistency and purpose again, had me embarrassingly punching the air for a change instead of brooding over what the hell I was doing with my life! A small victory perhaps, but a huge step in grasping the purpose of it all again!
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